The Washington Post Sunday – Jan 23 2022 Crossword Solution
The Washington Post Sunday – Jan 23 2022
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| ‘AC360’ broadcaster | CNN |
| ‘Black on Both Sides: A ___ History of Trans Identity’ (2017 book by C. Riley Snorton) | RACIAL |
| ‘Concrete Cowboy’ actor Idris | ELBA |
| ‘Finding Nemo’ giant | WHALE |
| ‘Horrible Bosses’ director ___ Gordon | SETH |
| ‘I’m downstairs,’ to a friend living in a high-rise apartment | ITSME |
| ‘Keep your balance!’ | STEADY |
| ‘The most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness,’ per Magdalena Abakanowicz | ART |
| ‘Up Late’ singer Lennox | ARI |
| ‘___ Land’ (2010 film about a vampire hunter) | STAKE |
| ‘___ looking at you, kid’ | HEROES |
| 2024 Summer Games city | PARIS |
| Aardwolves’ kin | HYENAS |
| Annoyance for Elmer, aptly | BUGS |
| Apple ___ | CIDER |
| Appointed leader? | SELF |
| Approached rapidly | RANAT |
| Artificial radioactivity co-discoverer Joliot-Curie | IRENE |
| Awards show sounds | CLAPS |
| Be down in competition | TRAIL |
| Believing, so to speak | BUOYING |
| Below zero (Hint: The complete answer is an alternate title for this puzzle suggesting a letter that can fit in 10 squares, but has been dropped each time) | ONEGATIVE |
| Black-and-white photoengraving | LINECUT |
| Blended brews, maybe | TEAS |
| Bocas del Toro nation | PANAMA |
| Brought under control | TAMED |
| Cartoon chihuahua | RENO |
| Cause delays, maybe | HINDER |
| Causes of irritation | PEEVES |
| Co. leader’s deg., often | MBA |
| Cousin of the Rachel sandwich | REUBEN |
| Credibility, as for an argument | HEFT |
| Deposits, as to an account | PAYSIN |
| Developed choppers | TEETHED |
| Developer’s creation | APOP |
| Diamond experts? | SKIERS |
| Dick inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008 | VITALE |
| Disc mower maker | DEERE |
| Discern visually | SEE |
| Distracting noise | ODIN |
| Do some pickpocketing | THIEVE |
| Educational basics | ABCS |
| Emmy winner Shore | DINAH |
| Emulate a kangaroo rat | LEAP |
| Ethics class concept | EVIL |
| Event for everyone | BIRTH |
| Expressionist Nolde | EMIL |
| Extraordinary success | EPICWIN |
| Fanning on a film set | ELLE |
| Fired off, as a text | SENT |
| Flight of the Conchords comedian McKenzie | BRET |
| Fronded green specimen | FERN |
| Game with a blitz variety | CHESS |
| Get things in order | TIDYUP |
| Grasslike growth | SEDGE |
| Green field? | FINANCE |
| Group of cells with similar structure and function | TISSUE |
| Harold who played Egon in ‘Ghostbusters’ | RAMIS |
| Harpsichord family instruments | SPINETS |
| High point of real estate? | ATTIC |
| Highly urgent | DIRE |
| Honey-colored resin | AMBER |
| Improv comedy tenet | YESAND |
| Indiana director? | STEVEN |
| Interlace | ENTWINE |
| Invent a 62 Across, say | LIE |
| Items stuck in cakes | CANOODLES |
| Joining | LIONKING |
| Jorts makeup | DENIM |
| Key that often has a left-facing arrow | ENTER |
| Knowing what’s going on | AWARE |
| Lake by Lorain, Ohio | ERIE |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Language family for Sotho and Swazi speakers | BANTU |
| Late actress, animal welfare advocate and self-described ‘avid crossword puzzle addict’ White | BETTY |
| Light source traditionally given to a first-year student at Bryn Mawr College | LANTERN |
| Like a pangolin’s skin | SCALY |
| Like an expert | ADEPT |
| Like many fitness trainers | INSHAPE |
| Like some shots at 19th-century saloons? | SEPIA |
| Liturgical book | MISSAL |
| Low euchre cards | TENS |
| Maker of LCD projectors | RCA |
| Maki or uramaki dish | SUSHI |
| Mare : filly :: ___ : pullet | HEN |
| Marine formation | REEF |
| Marsh plants with an animal in their name | COATTAILS |
| Masked athlete’s tool | EPEE |
| Michael who played bass for the Bangles | STEELE |
| Mimicking passerine bird | MYNA |
| Minister’s assistant | BEADLE |
| Nautical charts | SEAMAPS |
| Not in right now | AWAY |
| Not in right now | PASSE |
| Not uniform | UNEVEN |
| Objectives | AIMS |
| Obliterate | ERASE |
| Observable truth | FACT |
| Offshore platform | RIG |
| One who might drop the ball | KLUTZ |
| One-man show about Capote | TROU |
| Org. opposing dealers … or leading ‘dealers’? | DEA |
| Owner’s record | DEED |
| Pair in a Double Quarter Pounder | PATOOTIES |
| Paleontologists’ workplaces | DIGSITES |
| Phil, to Will, on ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ | UNCLE |
| Polyhedron feature | EDGE |
| Posting insulting messages online | FLAMINGO |
| Procedure used in a search for one’s genetic ancestors | DONATESTO |
| Promising quality | UPSIDE |
| Promo profession | ADBIZ |
| Protective gear | PADS |
| Reactions to a series of unfortunate events, say | TIRADES |
| Resist | DEFY |
| Ring out, like a bell | PEAL |
| Roam, with ‘about’ | GOAD |
| Sale signifier | REDTAG |
| See 24 Down | EAR |
| Slop(py) space | STY |
| Soda bottle measurements | LOITERS |
| Some pub drinks | ALOES |
| Spot for a wet blanket | DRYER |
| Standards of decorum | MANNERS |
| Start of an encouraging phrase | ATTA |
| Study manuals, say | READ |
| Sweater ___ (knit garments) | VESTS |
| Tabernacle table | ALTAR |
| Tack on | ADD |
| Taking down, in a forest | FELLING |
| Target of many a fan’s complaints | REF |
| Tastes, as 3 Down | SIPS |
| Tax Day sign | ARIES |
| Tennessee NFL pro | TITAN |
| Tibias’ spots | SHINS |
| Tight people | PALS |
| Unbleached linen hue | ECRU |
| Vigoda of ‘North’ | ABE |
| Walking aids | CANOES |
| What SPF 50 sunscreen blocks | UVRAYS |
| What YouTube tracks | VIEWS |
| Where an epilogue appears | ATTHEEND |
| With 85 Down, liability for an a cappella singer | TIN |
| [What’s this?!] | GASP |
| ___ down (subsided) | DIED |
| ___ punch (devastating blow) | GUT |